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ROCKED

EXPLOSION

LONDON

BY Whole City Area Affected: Not The I.R.A.

London, To-day.

The whole City of London was rocked by a tremeñ- dous explosion which occurred yesterday afternoon near St. Paul's Cathedral and behind Faraday House, London's principal telephone exchange.

A large building near the explosion collapsed, and

a number are feared to have been killed. Force of the explosion was so great that it broke windows over a wide area, including St. Paul's,

UNITED STATES TO MAP ITS OWN COURSE

Washington, To-day,

Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Se- cretary of State, while refusing to comment specifically on Mr. Chamberlain's House of CommonS speech on the Commons situation, yesterday said the United States would map its own course in the Far East.

Mr. Welles declared there was no understanding between the United States and Britain for joint action in the Orient-Reu- ter.

where a number of priceless-stained-glass win- NO MEETING

dows were scattered in fragments.

AUTHORITY TO CENSOR H.K. PRESS POSTERS

THE FOLLOWING ORDER WAS ISSUED TO-DAY:

IN

WHEREAS THE GOVERNOR

COUNCIL CONSIDERS

- Police and the fire brigade erected temporary casualty stations in ́ ́ór- der to deal with the hundreds of cases of pedestrians cut by flying glass.

OF TOKYO

CONFERENCE

TOKYO, TO-DAY.

The international headquarters-of- the Salvation Army in Queen Vic- toría Street were also used for NOW MEETING OF THE treatment of injured.

Fifty-foot flames in the wrecked building were fought by the City's rapidly concentrated fire brigades. MAIN BURST

Official cause of the explosion, THAT AN OCCASION OF given by an official of the Gas Com- EMERGENCY OR PUBLIC pany, is that a water main burst, DANGER CONTINUES TO probably owing to the heavy rains, EXIST JUSTIFYING THE which caused its bed to sink. EXERCISE OF POWERS CON- FERRED BY SECTION 2 OF THE EMERGENCY REGULA- TIONS ORDINANCE, 1922:

Water fractured the gas main and undermined the building, (Continued on Paye 28)

Now therefore by virtue and ANOTHER

in exercise of such powers the

Governor in Council makes the DAUGHTER

following regulation which shall

be added as regulation 214 to FOR JULIANA

the regulations made under the

Soestdijk, To-day,

said section 2 on the 28th Septem- Princess Juliana gave birth to ber, 1988, and published in the a daughter early this morning at Gazette of 7th October, 1988, as Soestdijk Palaco. Government Notification No. 7753

newspaper.

Reuter.

21A-(1) The Colomal Secre- (2) Any requisition under tary may, by command of the this regulation may be either for wung require the a limited or for an indefinite

editors of any period and may be revoked, sus- eimposed at any time Colonial Secre- mand of the Govern-

newspaper to submit to the Com: pen missioner of Police, or such other persong as the Governor

thorize, for cansorship.

publication or › distributi

or more copies of every-

placard or display-

ing to contain, in arty other than Chinese, ment of the contents o tion of the

ersons shall publish

placard or dis by this regu ubmitted for censor- copies thereof have and passed by the

ANGLO-JAPANESE ROUND |TABLE CONFERENCE OR THE SUB-COMMITTEE WAS FIXED FOR YESTERDAY.

ANGLO-FRENCH

COOPERATION ON SILVER

Paris, To-day.

It is indicated in well-informed quarters that the French Govern- ment is replying to the British enquiry on the subject of Chinese silver deposits in the British and French Concessions in Tientsin.

It is stated it considered British and French interests to be linked. It is added that France will

* on attitude identical to Bri-

this point

It is believed that the French Government has informed Japan of her attitude. Reuter:

butes the delay firstly to the firmer British attitude, due to the United States-abrogation of the trade treaty, and secondly,

The British Government is marking time to permit dissatis- faction to die down in Britain in connection with "the concession Britain is expected to make to The "Asahi Shimbun" attri- Japan." -Reuter.

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